Chapter 658: Decide whether to mess with me or with the Pope? (continued)
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You guys who only know how to fool around with Roman slutty women and ** are going to kill Lao Tzu!
Looking at the letters written from the city of Rome, Alfonso lost the joy of being promoted to bishop, and his mind was full of curses for the crooks, thieves, thieves, and pedophiles who were at ease in the Vatican.
Seeing the sweat gushing from his forehead turning his skin into sweat, flickering with a bleak light against the backdrop of the light, Li Shouhan felt proud in his heart.
"The! Let you gods dictate to me all day long! If it weren't for Lao Tzu's current inability to take care of it for a while, and his hands and feet couldn't stretch so long, Lao Tzu would have sent a team of soldiers and horses over to dismantle your Holy See and turn it into a Taoist temple! ”
At the beginning of Catholicism's entry into China, there were three so-called precepts for believers developing in China, that is, the so-called prohibition of respecting Confucius, not worshipping heaven, and not worshipping ancestors. These three articles are completely a kind of naked @naked @naked bandit logic, and it is a discriminatory method put forward by cultural and religious bandits. The reason why such a method is proposed, in addition to the ostensibly advertised non-idol worship, is also to interrupt the inheritance of Chinese civilization. It must be known that for thousands of years, Confucianism and Legalism have long become a part of our Chinese civilization and have penetrated into everyone's blood. Now it is announced that believers are not allowed to sacrifice Confucius, ostensibly because sacrificing Confucius is also a form of idolatry, but in fact it is aimed at Chinese civilization. As for not worshipping ancestors, it is a serious conflict with the concepts of family inheritance and ancestral bloodline in Chinese civilization. Of course, there is also a possible reason speculated by unkind authors, whether it is because their founding father, Jesus, was raised by a big girl. Born in a manger, he doesn't know his identity, family, and bloodline, so he is jealous and hateful of these? However, if this is the case, then why do European nobles pay great attention to family inheritance and bloodline? Not only is there a heraldic discipline that specializes in genealogy and family coats of arms, but it is also hemophilia, which is nicknamed royal disease, has been added to medicine because of the marriage of close relatives.
This is probably the beginning of double standards, right?
But. It is because of this practice that when the Taiping army swept through the Yangtze River valley hundreds of years later, it was easily pushed to the opposite side of Chinese civilization by Zeng Guofan's article against the Cantonese bandits, making the people of the whole country think that "long hair" is not the right way. It can be regarded as Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing who ate Brother Su's hanging.
However, when it comes to prohibiting believers from worshipping their ancestors, I don't know if Paul Xu Xiangguo, who was canonized as a saint, knows that the son-in-law of his granddaughter Ni Guizhen, the same Christian, has been defeated in successive battles. When he was forced to return to his hometown to make a look of idle clouds and wild cranes on the surface, he did not forget to worship his ancestors in the old house of Feng Ho House during the New Year.
Therefore, what bullshit prohibits worshipping ancestors and not worshipping the sky, it is all nonsense. It all depends on the strength to speak.
Today, Li Shouhan's purpose is to rely on his powerful strength to solve all kinds of religious problems in the territory and in the future Ming Dynasty.
To put it bluntly, Li Shouhan is not very interested in all kinds of religions. It doesn't matter if they are dressed in robes or robes. Whether it is a rosary or a cross on his chest, a Koran or a Bible in his hand. In his opinion, they are all a bunch of unproductive god stick parasites. But you can't expect everyone to be like that. Beyond half a step is a genius, beyond one step is a saint. If the steps are too big, it will be easy to become Wang Mang and easy to pull the egg.
But among the various religious sects, he was the most vigilant. These are these two religions that come from Jerusalem. Compared with these two religions, which made the whole world restless in later generations, Buddhism from Tianzhu has long been localized and well integrated with Confucianism in the Central Plains. As for the local religion Taoism, it has long been part of the composition of Chinese civilization. If you don't believe it, why are we in our traditional literary and artistic works. Why are those positive characters who are symbols of wisdom, or the dog-headed military advisors with bad stomachs, all of them a gossip robe? Imagine, if Zhuge Liang in the Peking Opera "Borrowing the East Wind" was not wearing a gossip fairy robe, but wearing a Catholic robe, with one hundred and eight prayer beads hanging on his chest, holding the Bible in his left hand and the Koran in his right hand, would this scene also make you drunk? Compared with the conflict between the two foreign religions and the Chinese civilization and the harm it has brought about, the great monks of Yongxin and the chief of Ruoshui and the female benefactor participate in the joyful meditation and use the alchemy of the sunflower is simply the same means as a child to pee and mud, and it is not worth mentioning.
Among these two religions, the performance of Western Catholicism represented by Bishop Alfonso in the recent period has raised Li Shouhan's vigilance to the highest level.
In his impression, these guys with crosses on their chests and Bibles in their hands are all pawns of cultural aggression for Western civilization, not only exporting cultural ideas under the cloak of religion, but also doing espionage activities of stealing cultural relics and spying on military, political, and natural resource intelligence. watched the right time, and even put on the battle in person.
While China was negotiating with Russia on the border issue, the famous missionary Bai Jin took advantage of the convenience of acting as an interpreter to inform the Russian representatives of such important information as the Qing government's demarcation line. And the Russian representative who came to negotiate Golovin was not a character who was easily toyed with by Lord Wei between applause as described by a certain martial arts novel writer. After getting the bottom line of the Chinese government's negotiations, it was even more of a lion's sky-high asking price, and even planned to achieve the goal of winning without a fight and forcing the Qing government to back down.
As for the decline of the Qing government, these missionaries forcibly seized land to build churches, illegally proselytized, and openly connived at all kinds of lawless incidents in which the Chinese government was provoking. What's more, when the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded Beijing during the Gengzi period, the American missionaries simply took off their missionary robes, picked up their rifles, and went into battle shirtless. It's not to avenge the parishioners who died at the hands of the Boxers, if that's the case, it can be regarded as their affection and righteousness, and they can be used to make a Hollywood blockbuster. What is it that makes these servants of God, who are full of words of mercy and God's salvation, pick up the guns?
Nothing else. It's the silver in the storehouse! This group of missionaries took up their guns and went to rob the official money of the household department!
This is still happening in Beijing, China, where the political, economic, military, and cultural levels are relatively strong, and as for some remote areas, all kinds of missionaries are simply engaged in the side business of selling arms and opium. Whether it is a militia group or a pole in the mountainous area of western Henan. A large number of Italian-made rifles were purchased from illegal missionary Italian priests.
However, this group of guys who have mastered modern scientific and technological means are both poison and medicine. You can't just kill them all, or drive them out. The so-called wildfires are inexhaustible, and the spring breeze blows and grows again. If you drive him out of the door, he will always be thinking about you and calculating you outside, what should you do with it? Only a thousand years to be a thief. There has not been a thousand years of thieves. The key is how to learn from Meng Weijun and bring the chickens and dogs to use!
Li Shouhan said in his heart, now you gods are getting more and more unable to get along in Europe, and you actually want to run to me to establish a new religious area, it is really wishful thinking, Lao Tzu may not be able to fight a war as if he broke the wheel, but he treats religion. Lao Tzu is much more courageous than breaking the wheel.
With the great discoveries of navigation, and the progress of various natural sciences. The pope, which had ruled Europe for hundreds of years, was already in decline, otherwise there would not have been this war that would have lasted for decades. In Li Shouhan's view, this war is bound to strengthen the royal power of European royal families and weaken the divine power of the Holy See. However, if you don't want the strong ships and guns of Europe to come to the East. Instead, he drove his own giant ship cannon over, and it was also necessary to maintain the authority of the Holy See. This is why he recently quietly ordered Long Shengxing to secretly contact several East India companies such as the Netherlands and England, and prepare to open credit accounts for long-term customers in order to repay them, allowing them to purchase more goods on credit. It was used to conduct wars between European royal families.
"Fight for it! The longer and more tragic the fight, the faster my knowledge, technology, and education system will be established. In the end, everyone was dying, and the Roman Catholic Church came out to clean up the mess! ”
Li Shouhan sneered and recalled the classic judgment of Marxism-Leninism, "All religions are tools to anesthetize the people." "In fact, religion does not only anesthetize the people, but also anesthetizes the whole world for a long time.
"Bishop Alfonso, tell me what you plan to do to establish a church and develop the faithful under the rule of this duke? When the believers reach a certain size, what about replacing them with their own people? Once again, Li Shouhan dropped a bombshell on Alfonso's head.
However, Alfonso did not hesitate to listen to Li Shouhan's words, and secretly changed the concept of turning the Nanyue Army and the Ming Dynasty into a Catholic state proposed in the secret letter of the Holy See to replace Li Shouhan's rule. He just wanted to clear himself in front of Li Shouhan as soon as possible.
If this could not be done, then the fate that awaited him and his Roman Catholicism would be the same as that of the Calvinists who had their churches burned down and whose sectarian cadres were thrown into the mines to work with the native slaves who spoke all sorts of languages.
Father Alfonso shuddered at the recollection of the tragic fate of the Calvinist clergy in the correspondence between the presiding clergy of the Holy See and the leading figures of the Calvinists. He didn't want to be the corpse that had been lifted out of the depths of the mine.
In front of him was the corpse of a leading Calvinist figure, and in my ears was the almost gloating description of the Calvinist sect being swept away by the counterinsurgency forces of the Southern Cantonese Army, but in my hand was the Holy See's letter of canonization and assignment. Alfonso felt this remorse in his heart! He felt that the canonization edict was a black hand that threw him on the fire to roast.
I knew that it would be so uncomfortable, and killing him would not have allowed Gonzalez to accept the canonization of the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church! has strength, soldiers, horses, ships, money and food in hand, and says that he is the king and the emperor, but does that regime dare to admit it? When the Eastern Roman Empire was strong and the imperial power was at its peak, the emperor could remove the Patriarch of Constantine, and who would dare to say anything?
"Nope! I don't want to accept this canonization! To be canonized is also to accept the canonization of His Highness! ”
I don't know if it's a moment of confusion or a blessing to the soul, Alfonso shouted such a sentence in a hurry!
I am afraid that no one can avoid what this sentence means in the history of religion in the future.
His words disrupted Li Shouhan and Li Peilin, who didn't know when he came in and was motioned by Li Shouhan to sit on a chair next to him.
Originally, Li Shouhan found that after more than ten years of development, various religious forces in the territory of the jurisdiction had quietly formed a terrifying force, with huge influence and a huge group of believers.
Among these religious denominations. Although the Calvinists and the followers of Muhammad jumped out of the rebellion first, the Southern Cantonese army took the opportunity to cut off many of its wings, which greatly damaged the original momentum. But after all, killing is only a symptom, not a cure.
"In my lonely opinion, there can be no temple, Taoist temple, Buddhist hall, and worship temple that are not under the control of my Nanyue Army and Guogong Mansion!"
Li Shouhan hated the unwitting emergence of such a second power center in the territory, or a second group that was outside the administrative system. He gritted his teeth to turn these religious forces into obedient and loyal dogs under his throne.
"My lord." For Li Shouhan, he has inadvertently called himself a lonely man. Li Peilin not only did not feel abrupt, on the contrary, he was already a little impatient to wait for this day.
"If you want to turn all these temples, Taoist temples, churches, and worship temples into the master's hands, it is nothing more than the art of canonization and control." Canonization was the only means used by successive Central Plains regimes to control religious and ethnic minority leaders. Canonization can not only be used to rule the feudal region, but also can play a role in controlling religion, what is going on with the reincarnation of the Buddha of the King of Wusizang, the great erudite treasure and the wise man of the Great Sea, and what is the matter with the enshrinement of Confucius as the King of Dacheng Most Holy Wenxuan. That's all too clear!
In terms of identity, the Holy Duke of Confucius also wants to kowtow to the emperor. The Confucian family of Qufu, who is known as having been well-dressed for 3,000 years, in front of a shaving order from the regent Dolgon, didn't the whole family happily shave their heads and keep braids in the Yansheng Mansion? In terms of faith, why should the disciples of the two Manjushri Bodhisattvas who claim to be immortal in the human world accept the golden vase lottery system, which is crucial in the reincarnation system? And it should be carried out under the supervision of the special minister of the imperial court? Let's ask, if it weren't for the strength of the soldiers and horses of the Qing Dynasty to hit Qufu. General Yue Zhongqi, who is known as the grandson of Yue Fei for several generations, entered Lhasa and drove away the Dzungars, the Yansheng Mansion in Qufu and the two living Buddhas on the snowy plateau. Will such a mandatory order be accepted?
Strength! In the end, it's still strength!
Although Li Peilin would not have guessed that the first in the world would shave his hair and keep braids in the future, the canonization of the Central Plains regime in various places also depends on strength, and the tributary system in East Asia is not formed by relying on royal Taoism. And Li Shouhan has such strength, which Li Peilin never doubts.
However, he did not expect it. His lord thinks far more than such a system.
"It is necessary to establish a system of officials stationed in temples to supervise temples, Taoist churches, and worship temples. Their religious activities can be ignored by officials. However, for example, the house is repaired, and the Buddha statue hall treasures and cultural relics are managed. Daily financial accounts, temple property management, these things, the officials stationed in the temple must take care of them! ”
In addition to these, the scriptures and teachings they preached had to be verified by the officials stationed in the monastery before they could be disseminated to the believers. If there are clergy in the temple and worship temple, who are born, old, sick and die, and the personnel are changed, increased or decreased, they must be reported to the officials stationed in the temple and forwarded to the department for approval. The kind of thing that kills people and hides in the temple is absolutely not allowed to happen in the territory of Lone! ”
"Lord, if there is a hero like Luda in the lord's army, I am afraid that it will be too late to go into battle to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, what kind of effort will there be to make trouble in Wutai Mountain? Drunk on the mountain gate? Following Li Shouhan's words, Li Peilin teased. But there was a thunderstorm rolling through my heart.
However, the scene in front of them completely disrupted the steps drawn up by the two monarchs and ministers. Who would have thought that Alfonso would be so useless after throwing the edicts and secret letters that he had confiscated? Just scared it, it became a pile of rotten meat without bones. This is far worse than that of his Catholic descendants. But when they found the radio, passwords, guns and ammunition in the church, they could not change their faces and lie that they were innocent.
"Come on! Alfonso, Lone didn't come to you today to see your sad face. I'm going to ask you, one is your pope, the other is the lonely Nanyue army and the tens of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains in Nanzhong, which one do you choose? ”
Does this need to be asked? Just now, Alfonso has made it clear that if he is promoted to the priesthood, he is also willing to accept Li Shouhan's canonization.
"Since you are willing to accept the canonization of this duke sincerely, then this duke naturally cannot refuse people thousands of miles away. Your pope promoted you to bishop, dressed in purple. I heard that your Catholic cardinal was even more respectful. You can wear red, and you are commonly known as a cardinal. My father will crown you as a cardinal today! By the way, you can also join my Huaxia household registration! ”
Canonization of cardinals? And canonized by a secular monarch who does not believe in Christ? Such a thing has never happened in the history of Christianity. It was something that neither Attila, the whip of God, nor Batu, who had put all of Europe under the iron hooves of the Mongol army, trembled, had done. (To be continued......)